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itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><div class="avatar__name"><a href="https://github.com/iquerejeta" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="name">Iñigo Querejeta Azurmendi</span></a></div><small class="avatar__subtitle" itemprop="description">Cardano Lead Cryptography Engineer</small></div></div></div></div></header><div id="post-content" class="markdown" itemprop="articleBody"><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="high-level-summary">High level summary<a class="hash-link" href="#high-level-summary" title="Direct link to heading"></a></h2><p>The four open fronts that the crypto team is working on are:</p><ul><li>MuSig2: The API features (error handling) has been merged. </li><li>Mithril: We update the KES library and published it in crates.io. Similarly, we merged batch verification of STM signatures.</li><li>cardano-base: VRF and BLS are still waiting to be merged, as we have some problems with the CI. </li><li>KES agent: We keep progressing with KES secure forgetting implementation.</li></ul><p>We also started working in the cryptography engineering handbook, which will be a cross team effort.</p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="low-level-summary">Low level summary<a class="hash-link" href="#low-level-summary" title="Direct link to heading"></a></h2><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="musig2">MuSig2<a class="hash-link" href="#musig2" title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><ul><li>Merged the more granular error handling mechanism <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/musig2/pull/33" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PR#33</a></li></ul><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="mithril">Mithril<a class="hash-link" href="#mithril" title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><ul><li>Adapted KES library so that sk contains its corresponding period, making key handling easier. Avoid making unnecessary copies of the KES key. Expose function to get associated period. All included in <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/kes/commit/9de00835ed354cbb8d37838f6cee57930ea9fd3d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Version 0.1.1</a>, which was published in <a href="https://crates.io/crates/kes-summed-ed25519" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">crates.io</a>. </li><li>Updated new KES format to mithril library <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/mithril/pull/674" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PR 674</a></li><li>We implemeneted batch verification of stm signatures, which improves the benchmarks for mithril chain-sync <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/mithril/pull/531" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PR 531</a></li><li>We keep progressing on reducing the use of <code>transmute</code> in <code>mithril-stm</code>.</li></ul><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="cardano-base">cardano-base<a class="hash-link" href="#cardano-base" title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><ul><li>Nothing new to report. Still working in merging these PRs. We are only missing nix merge of <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/iohk-nix/pull/520" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PR#520</a> and the updates on VRF will be merged.</li></ul><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="kes-agent">KES agent<a class="hash-link" href="#kes-agent" title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><ul><li>We keep progressing in the secure forgetting PR. Added NoThunks tests, error hasndling to detect when mlocking fails, resolved bugs due to incorrect usage of mlocked memory and wrote more efficient tests <a href="https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-base/pull/255#issuecomment-1362601518" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PR#255</a>.</li></ul><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="cryptography-handbook">Cryptography handbook<a class="hash-link" href="#cryptography-handbook" title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>We have made available the (temporary) cryptography handbook <a href="https://input-output-hk.github.io/cryptography_spec/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://input-output-hk.github.io/cryptography_spec/</a>, and included the description of some primitives (Ed25519, KES and VRF). 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